What is speed of moons rotation?

Answer 1

Aside from spinning on its axis, the Earth also revolves around the sun, which takes a whole year (365 days). The spinning of the Earth depends on the latitude of the Earth. At the equator, the Earth spins at a speed of about 1,000 miles per hour.

Answer 2

The speed of the moon's rotation is constant and takes approximately 27.3 days to complete one full rotation on its axis. This rotation period is the same as the moon's orbital period around the Earth, which is why we always see the same side of the moon facing us from Earth.

Answer 3

Earth spins at over 10,000ks an hr im pretty sure
The Earth spins at a rate of about 15 degrees per hour.

The linear (tangential) speed is dependent on your latitude; zero at the poles, and about 1065 MPH at the equator. You can calculate your speed by multiplying 1065*COS(latitude).

Answer 4

In angular terms, the Earth spins at 15 degrees per hour. The "speed" of any spot on the Earth's surface depends on the latitude. At the equator, the tangential speed is about 1080 miles per hour, decreasing to zero at the poles.

Answer 5

One rotation every 24 hours (approximately). Since the Earth has a circumference of 40,000 kilometers, that results in a rotational speed of 40,000 km / 24 hr or almost 1700 kilometers/hour. That's the speed at the equator.

Answer 6

The rotational speed of stars varies. Some stars, like pulsars, rotate several times per second, and others take days, weeks or months to rotate. Also, our own sun, because it is a plasma and not a solid object, has what is called differential rotation. (Remember that a plasma is a fluid and behaves as fluids do.) It rotates at different speeds at the equator than at the poles. Many other stars, particularly large ones, will exhibit this same differential rotation, and that makes it difficult to cite a period of rotation, even if we could pick out rotation at the distances these objects are from us.

Answer 7

The stars do not orbit the earth. Instead, our solar system orbits the Milky Way Galaxy, a vast sea of some 200 to 400 billion stars.

The nearby stars (except the pole star) do appear to drift across the sky from one night to the next. Although a complete rotation requires one full day, the same time each day has the stars offset a bit, so that it takes a full year (the motion of the earth around the sun) for them to return to their starting positions.

Answer 8

The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles. The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 1000 miles per hour.

add And the velocity dies off as you approach the poles. At 45o the speed would be .707 of the Equatorial, and so on, till at the poles the rotational velocity is essentially zero....Cosine(Latitude)X 1040mph. Cos(45)=.707....

Answer 9

360 degrees per 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.09054 seconds - according to Wikipedia Or, from another perspective: The equator is 24,900 miles long, roughly. The earth takes 24 hours on average to complete one rotation. So at the equator, the earth moves a little faster than 1,000 miles per hour in its rotation on its axis.

Answer 10

The moon is in captured orbit. This means that it always keeps the same face towards the earth. Therefore the moon rotates once around its axis for every orbit it makes round the earth (otherwise if it kept the same face, say, towards the sun, we would see it appear to rotate as it orbited the earth). As it rotates once for every orbit, its rotation time is 27.322 days - the same as a lunar 'month' - the time it takes to orbit the earth. The moon has a diameter at the equator of 2160 miles and hence (from the formula Circumference = Pi x diameter) a circumference of 6785 miles. At the equator, then, it rotates this distance in 27.322 days or, (multiplying by 24 hours in a day), 655.728 hours. Therefore its speed at the equator is 6785 miles in 655.728 hours, or 10.35 miles per hour. Obviously as you move away from the equator towards the poles this speed drops until, at the poles, it is zero.